SHOCKING: Brookings - What They Never Told You

Michigan farmers created wind leases paying landowners without turbines $1,000 an acre

Michigan farmers found a way to make wind development pay beyond the properties where turbines were actually placed. In Isabella County, farmers worked together to create a lease that shared part of the revenue across participating landowners, meaning a farmer could receive a payment even without hosting a turbine. The…

The Times of India · Oct 3

The American dream remains elusive in the valley that inspired East of Eden

John Steinbeck’s hometown of Salinas is the least affordable city in the US for the middle class, a recent Brookings Institution analysis found

The Guardian - US · Oct 3

62 Fantastic Examples Of Some Of The World’s Best Infrastructure (New Pics)

Infrastructure may not be the most exciting topic to discuss, but it’s something that impacts all of us. When it’s fantastic, we don’t have to think too much about it. But when it’s terrible, we are constantly complaining. So if you’d like to take some time to appreciate some of…

Bored Panda · Sep 22

How Much Is ICE Costing the U.S. Economy? LA Put a Dollar Figure on Immigration Enforcement Raids

LA County spent months quantifying ICE enforcement's economic toll. Houston and Chicago haven't — but the scattered data tells its own story.

Latin Times · Aug 9

How Second Chance Month Went From Proclamation to Policy

Second Chance Month began as an April designation. Here's what it has actually produced in law, hiring policy, and record clearing across the U.S.

inkl · Aug 6

Elon Musk's $40 Trillion AI Debt 'Cure' Faces Reality Check In Brutal Brookings Report

Elon Musk insists AI will rescue the US from its £31tn debt burden, but experts at the Brookings Institution warn that technology alone cannot bridge the fiscal gap.

International Business Times UK · Jul 3

AI could wipe $2.2 trillion off the national debt, but there's a catch

A new Brookings/Fed paper finds AI productivity could meaningfully shrink the U.S. deficit — until you count the side effects, which could erase more than half the savings before Washington even cashes the check.

Fortune · Jul 2

Elon Musk says AI is the only way to solve the U.S. debt crisis—but the tech will be so successful that Treasury ends up paying, finds new study

AI has the potential to be so transformative that it “should give optimists pause,” the study notes.

Fortune · Jul 2

A Brookings paper just accidentally explained Zohran Mamdani

The headline finding was almost an afterthought: 62 of the 100 most AI-exposed counties in the United States voted Democratic in 2024.

Fortune · Jun 26

New York City House primary emerges as key battleground in ‘AI civil war’

AI-focused Super Pacs are spending heavily in the midterms, and half has gone to a single Manhattan congressional race

The Guardian - US · Jun 22